Cinema AZN

Cinema AZN (2005-) is a weekly half-hour program, hosted by Marie-France Arcilla, broadcast on AZN Television, a Comcast cable network. CINEMA AZN is an entertaining and informative program on Asian and Asian American movies - the first of its kind on American television - and reaches 17 million subscribers around the United States and in all major markets. The program mixes popular entertainment and informed reporting and features some of Asia's biggest stars such as Tony Leung (2046), Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle), Amitabh Bachchan, Zhang Ziyi (Hero, Memoirs of A Geisha) and Joan Chen (Saving Face); and major filmmakers such as Wong Kar-wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Jackie Chan, Zhang Yimou and Im Kwon-Taek. It is aimed at the mainstream US demographic audience and appeals particularly to audiences interested in Asian and Asian American entertainment, personalities and movies. Cinema AZN is produced by Woo Art International, a New York-based production company, in association with Asian CineVision, a non-profit media arts organization.